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Short Mountain Colliery: Timeline 1900-1929

1900:

Placed set of rolls in Breaker to break down broken and egg coal.

Purchased Blake slush pump, 12” x 8” x 17.”

Trestle 40 feet high and 120 feet long built across Bear Creek to run cars with breaker rock to dumping ground.

December 20th, a 500 horsepower B & W boiler erected.

Purchased a Jeansville pump, 10” x 12” x 6.”

March 16th, No. 4 Slope flooded to a depth of 12 feet; idle 32 days.

Strike- 35 days, September 17 – October 29; 10% wage increase

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